Skinny Chicken and Sweet Potato Noodle Soup

Start the year out right with a hearty spiralized Skinny Chicken and Sweet Potato Noodle Soup! The soup light, packed with wholesome ingredients and great texture making it a healthy, satisfying option!

It can be a pretty steep turn from the holiday celebrating to reconciling to a healthier and/or lower calorie diet approach. I frankly think it’s an easier change to do in the summer. Fresh produce abounds with lots of salad makings, smoothies, grilling and frankly it’s hot so we don’t want to eat as much.

Winter is for comfort food. We crave stick-to-your ribs recipes that fill us with warmth. Most of those dishes are heavy and often higher in calories. They make us feel full which I frankly think satisfies an evolutionary need to bulk up in winter when food used to be scarcer.

Sadly unlike the caveman who burned calories braving the elements in winter, most of us are probably less active making the road to a healthier, svelter self a struggle. The Skinny Chicken and Sweet Potato Noodle soup can help satisfy that craving while saving your waistline.

My knee jerk reaction in the cold months when anyone begins to sniffle is to whip together this soup packed with natural whole foods, some heat from jalapenos to help purge the body and a splash of apple cider vinegar which brightens the soup’s flavor as well as soothes a sore throat and clears sinuses.

There have been actual medical studies illustrating chicken soup really does help get over colds but more importantly I believe it is a basic comfort food.

Somewhere in everyone’s past they have a family chicken soup memory. Whether their Grandma made it from scratch or their mother made it from a can, it is a flavor footprint associated with warmth and goodness.

Skinny Chicken and Sweet Potato Noodle Soup

My first soup recipe of the year, the Skinny Chicken and Sweet Potato Noodle soup, is a take on chicken noodle soup but skinnied up a bit as well made in under 45 minutes.

The soup starts with basic vegetables along with garlic and some ginger to make a simple from-scratch stock.

Prepared chicken lessens the cooking time while still lending the flavor and texture we love about chicken noodle soup.

Chicken breasts can be prepared quickly or purchased as a rotisserie chicken, and are a great lean protein choice.

Lastly the noodles are actually spiralized Sweet Potato (shhhh). Their texture is that of spaghetti noodles when cooked and they add great nutrition to the soup.

Originally I considered making the noodles from white potatoes, which you certainly can do, however for this soup I decided on a sweet potato for their higher dietary fiber (makes you feel more full), higher Vitamin A and they add color to the soup.

The soup is not strained so brimming with chunky texture making it a healthy, satisfying option!

You’ve asked what Spiralizer I use and I’ve used this one since I started sprializing and love it!

How to make Skinny Chicken and Sweet Potato Noodle Soup Recipe:

Skinny Chicken and Sweet Potato Noodle Soup

A light, soul-warming soup easily prepared in less than 45 minutes. A savory from-scratch broth is pumped up with garlic and ginger, chunks of prepared chicken and spiralized sweet potato noodles replace starchy egg noodles for a colorful, healthier update!

Recipe can be doubled or tripled keeping the ingredient proportions the same. See the Notes section for a link to an Spiralizer alternative.

ASAP is the operative word here! I’m going to be at the store buying the rotisserie chicken and a sweet potato by noon today. I already have the garlic and ginger, will need a fresh jalapeño. And I’ll be trying out my groovy new spiralizer, too, woohoo! What a wonderful soup for all the nutritional and immune-boosting reasons you mention, Toni! Thank you for this timely “dose of inspiration” with all its beautiful colors and rich flavors.

I love everything about this soup, especially the spiralized sweet potatoes as noodles! This looks so delicious and just filled with awesome flavor…you are so creative with your dishes…thanks for sharing another great recipe!

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